MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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In 2:30 a.m. tweets, White House says FBI report supports Kavanaugh confirmation
By AmericanDreamer on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 10:53am |The White House said early Thursday that it had received the FBI’s report on Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh and that it is “fully confident” that the Senate will confirm President Trump’s nominee to the nation’s top court.
Raj Shah, deputy White House press secretary, said the report, which Democrats have denounced as hasty and incomplete, marked “the last addition to the most comprehensive review of a Supreme Court nominee in history, which includes extensive hearings, multiple committee interviews, over 1,200 questions for the record and over a half-million pages of documents.”
In three tweets, the first published at 2:24 a.m. Thursday, Shah said lawmakers will have had “ample time” to review the results of the latest investigation by the time they vote Friday on whether to advance Kavanaugh’s nomination, according to a schedule set into motion Wednesday by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Senators will be able to review the report at a secure facility at the Capitol beginning Thursday.
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Just take their word for it. Because, why would anyone not?
WaPo, Isaac Stanely-Becker, 3:12 this morning. Isaac working the graveyard shift.
URL:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/as-fbi-background-check-of-kavanaugh-nears-its-end-probe-appears-to-have-been-highly-curtailed/2018/10/03/2fa4e93e-c72f-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html?utm_term=.4b58d8353106
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Learned something from this paragraph making an important distinction:
So our expectations that his would be an objective review are faulty, and this would be the case for any judicial or executive nomination by any president that has to be confirmed by the Senate. It's an advocacy situation, the president does his investigating, and the Senate has to do their own investigating.
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 12:39pm
Thanks--important to bear in mind.
The fact that it is not abnormal for the White House to tell the bureau what to do does not mean that it is either appropriate or wise, in a situation of this nature. I would not expect, nor would anyone here I suspect, this White House to have a mindset that would cause it to restrain itself and permit the Bureau wide latitude, given that the nature of the restraints very likely will come out over time, eventually, and that the credibility of the entire process will be impacted by public perceptions of whether the investigation was inappropriately and excessively constrained.
The reality of this situation is that this particular White House, with its MO and mindset, was in effect able to block an Executive branch agency from serving the public interest through a full, thorough and fair investigation. It should have in effect recused itself from restraining the investigation absent clear signs of really egregious abuse by the Bureau in going way outside the scope of anything potentially relevant.
But only if its motivations were such as to value a reality as well as a public and political perception of a fair process. So we just add to the list this as yet one more instance of grievous Executive branch abuse of power and obstruction of justice.
ETA: cleaned up initial version
by AmericanDreamer on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 1:03pm
Not abnormal, but this was Congress requesting, not normal vetting of White House staff, and done after more than a hint of improprieties. In short, irrelevant to current case.
More german, this investigation is being run as a coverup, with significant issues deliberately unreported and covered up. Yet another scandal become the new normal.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 1:09pm
good point: this was Congress requesting
that said, I remember coming across more than one story explaining that in this situation of a nominee, the White House has to request and then the report goes to the White House first
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 1:23pm
Senator Coons' first thoughts for public consumption:
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 1:12pm
and here's Flake with reference to Collins:
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 1:14pm
Strikes me as the smart way to attack what's going on here:
but then, like with the Trump tax returns issue, nobody needs to see anything because: doubt ruins delusions of grandeur:
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 1:45pm
Paul Waldman at WaPo: "With whitewash complete, every Republican will now line up behind Kavanaugh":
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/10/04/with-whitew...
Such fine-sounding words as the undecideds have expressed are just talk. They're full of hot air and have zero credibility as senators who have anything to offer that helps us get out of the stinkin' mess we are in as a country. They are only digging us deeper still. On what may well come to be seen as the defining vote of their public careers, they, and all of the others who vote yes, will have failed our country utterly. What a bunch of zeroes.
This was a time when we needed clear thinking and a commitment to uphold the spirit of our constitution and adhere to preconditions necessary for it and our society to work. One side of the aisle in our Senate said screw all that, it's just a bunch of meaningless horse pucky that we provide from time to time for popular consumption. They are counting on the stench of this moment to fade away, and on getting away with this heinous act against our republic.
For shame.
by AmericanDreamer on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 3:32pm
Manchin & Heitkemp
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 4:35pm
Republicans challenge Heitkamp's statement, doubt that democrats brush teeth. Graham snarled, "If Heitkamp brushed her teeth she would vote for Kavanaugh."
by ocean-kat on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 4:51pm
Sounds like the start of an academic paper on how political identity synchs with dental hygiene practice
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 5:00pm
Given the controversy that would be a good use of academic resources. What do the leaders of the tribe recommend, the nine out of ten dentists? rmrd can weigh in and tell us how dental hygiene is a racist plot by white supremacists.
by ocean-kat on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 5:40pm
Glenn Kirschner's opinion:
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 4:37pm
Hah, this is like ridiculous. Makes me think of how McConell rushing is simply blatantly ridiculous, there is no real reason for it:
Bloomberg's Sahil Kapur retweeted it with a red siren light emoji added.
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 7:05pm
Liz Warren's conclusion and floor speech:
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 7:50pm
It ain't over till it's over:
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/04/2018 - 11:36pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 10/05/2018 - 12:58pm